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` no Y uname/IN ILPETERS. PHOTO-LITHOBRAPHER WSMINGTON D C Specification of Letters Patent No. 26,432, dated December 13, 1859.`

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM HOFFMAN, of the city of Benicia, county of Solano, and

State of California, have invented a new I and useful Apparatus for a Single-Handed Tray, which I call Hoffmans Single- Handed Tray g and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specilication, in whichy y Figure l, is a perspective view: Fig. 2, is a sectional view of one end.

A, is the box or tray.

B, is the handleof wood or metal, connected with the tray by the arms c, c and el, al attached by means of the pins or pivots h, two of which arms c, c, have -slots in them, as shown at e, so that they may be disconnected from the tray, in order to receive large dishes, also to take up less room when the tray is not in use. The handle may also be connected with the tray by the stationary arm lo, or by the arm f, swinging on apivot m,`and kept in place by the spring catch p,

attached to plate s, as shown in Fig. 2. l

The advantages of this arrangement over that of trays heretofore in use, are thatthe y apparatus can `be used `,withone hand,` leave p i ing the other freeto open doors, or tocarryother articles, also that `they `take up less room in passing through the passages of; the

house. By` unshippinggthe arnis c, cy', itiwillf i receive dishes as `easily as `traysfwith handles p efd away at each end, and small a space. .y y y i What I claiinasliny invention and""for which I desire Letters" Patent asa new"` arf ticle of manufacture is-` l.

@be P@ A single-handedQbutlersltray, l with a hinged or pivoted handle so `astoloe" detached, or swung out of the way, .tofacili-H tate the placing or removing `of articles .upon it, and to economize room and space incarrying, or stowing away, `as herein "set forth: and explained. u w

f W-.HOFFMN Witnesses:

CHAs. R.. BOYD, Gao. T. S. KNo'r. 

